IT Security Manager

IT Security Manager — Fortress Digital Solutions

Atlanta, GA | January 2024 – Present

• Managed an IT security budget of $1.1M, renegotiating vendor service contracts for corporate firewall and SIEM tools to reduce annual software spend by 14% while expanding coverage.
• Led a team of 5 cybersecurity analysts in monitoring and resolving 180+ daily alerts, reducing the average mean time to detect (MTTD) by 32% and the mean time to respond (MTTR) by 38%.
• Designed and deployed enterprise-wide multi-factor authentication (MFA) and Okta identity integrations, lowering credential-based security incidents by 78% across 600 staff members.
• Directed the end-to-end security compliance audit, implementing 45 new security controls to achieve SOC 2 Type II certification with zero critical findings in under 6 months.

Information Security Analyst — Omni Retail Group

Charlotte, NC | June 2020 – December 2023

• Conducted weekly vulnerability scans across 140 host servers and 3 major web applications, patching 96% of critical vulnerabilities within 48 hours of detection.
• Developed and facilitated cybersecurity awareness training for 450 corporate employees, reducing phishing simulation click-through rates from 22% down to 3% over a 12-month period.
• Configured and maintained Splunk SIEM dashboards and custom alerting rules, decreasing false positive alerts by 42% and saving the operations team 15 weekly hours in manual reviews.
• Assisted in the secure migration of 14 database repositories to AWS cloud storage, implementing KMS encryption and reducing data access latency for internal applications by 24%.

Information security governance, Incident response planning, Vulnerability management, Cloud security (AWS), Zero-trust architecture, SIEM dashboard administration, Identity & access management (IAM), SOC 2 compliance, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, Okta, CrowdStrike, Wireshark, Nessus, SQL, Python

Zero-Trust Network Implementation

Role: Lead Security Manager

Tools: Palo Alto Networks, Okta, AWS IAM, Terraform

Led the 8-month transition to a zero-trust network model for 650 users, securing remote endpoints and reducing unauthorized network entry attempts by 82%.

SIEM Tool Modernization

Role: Security Specialist

Tools: Splunk, Linux, Python, AWS CloudTrail

Architected a log-ingestion system that consolidated 4 security tools into Splunk, decreasing monthly software licensing costs by 28% and alert fatigue by 34%.

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (2024)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) (2025)

• Languages: English (Native), French (Conversational)
• Professional Affiliations: Member of ISSA Atlanta Chapter since 2021
• Availability: 3 weeks notice